English Illustration. “The Sixties”: 1855-70.
By Gleeson White. Price £2 2s. net.
With Numerous Illustrations by Sir E. Burne-Jones; Ford Madox Brown; Birket Foster; A. Boyd Houghton; Arthur Hughes; Chas. Keene; Lord Leighton, P.R.A.; G. Du Maurier; Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A.; J. W. North; E. J. Poynter, R.A.; D. G. Rossetti; Frederick Sandys; J. McNeill Whistler; Frederick Walker, A.R.A.; and others.
“Mr. Gleeson White has done his work well.... It is a book of beauty in one of its aspects, and an instructive and well-written critical treatise in the other.”—Daily News.
“In this very handsome volume Mr. Gleeson White has given us what is practically an exhaustive account of the admirable results obtained by designers and wood-engravers during the eventful years that lie between say 1855 and 1870.... Simply invaluable to all students and collectors....”—Glasgow Herald.
“ ... This sumptuous volume, which Messrs. Constable have printed with their familiar mastery, and to which have been added the glories of hand-made paper and beautiful binding. With characteristic modesty Mr. Gleeson White would claim but the cataloguer’s place, and would write himself down only the guide to those who must follow. Certainly in the first instance the volume is a monument of painstaking research.... But a careful reading conveys the sense that the historians’ and critics’ parts belong not less to Mr. Gleeson White. The book, in short, must be in the hands of all who care for English art. Even those to whom the names on its title-page are nothing but names, will find it a surprising picture book, an album, if you will, to lay upon the table, but an album rich in suggestion and of singular and subtle charm.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
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“Mr. Gleeson White has written a work worthy of a foremost place among the standard reference books on matters artistic. Messrs. Constable have produced the book in a truly sumptuous manner.”—Publisher’s Circular.
The Household of the Lafayettes. By
Edith Sichel. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.
Songs for Little People. By Norman Gale.
Profusely Illustrated by Helen Stratton. Large Crown 8vo, 6s.
“A delightful book.”—Scotsman.
“We cannot imagine anything more appropriate as a gift-book for children.”—Glasgow Daily Mail.